Christopher Meloni was born in Washington, DC, the youngest of three children of Cecile, a homemaker, and Charles Robert Christopher Meloni, an endocrinologist.
28 Facts About Christopher Meloni
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Christopher Meloni's maternal ancestry is French Canadian, and he is a descendant of Matthias Farnsworth.
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Christopher Meloni's paternal ancestry is Italian; one great-grandfather was born in Sardinia and another was born in Velva.
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Christopher Meloni attended St Stephen's School in Alexandria, Virginia, and played quarterback on the football team.
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Christopher Meloni studied acting at the University of Colorado at Boulder and graduated with a degree in history in 1983.
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Christopher Meloni worked as a construction worker prior to getting his acting break.
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Christopher Meloni has worked as a bouncer, bartender, and personal trainer.
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Christopher Meloni worked his way up the acting ladder with commercials, short-lived TV series, and bit parts in a number of films.
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Christopher Meloni appeared as Robbie Sinclair's friend Spike in Dinosaurs in the early 1990s.
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From 1998 to 2003, Christopher Meloni portrayed the bisexual criminal Chris Keller on the HBO series Oz.
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Christopher Meloni was nominated for the 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Elliot Stabler.
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In May 2011, Christopher Meloni announced that he had been unable to agree on a contract and would not be returning for season 13 of SVU.
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Christopher Meloni's character was written out as having put in his retirement papers.
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Christopher Meloni appeared in a crossover event during season 22 of SVU.
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Christopher Meloni had an uncredited role as a gay hotel desk clerk in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
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Christopher Meloni played Colonel Hardy, a supporting role, in the Superman reboot film Man of Steel, which was released in 2013.
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In 2018, Christopher Meloni guest starred in two episodes of the FX drama series Pose, opposite Dominique Jackson.
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Christopher Meloni appeared on the third season of The Handmaid's Tale as Commander Winslow in 2019.
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In 2004 and 2006, respectively, Christopher Meloni competed in the fourth and the eighth series of Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown; in the eighth series he finished in second place, behind Robin Tunney, and ahead of Macy Gray, Joy Behar, and Andy Dick.
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Christopher Meloni appeared on the program's Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational that aired on December 17,2009.
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Christopher Meloni has appeared in many public service announcements in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues.
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In 1999, Christopher Meloni jokingly kissed Lee Tergesen at an awards dinner for GLAAD.
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In 2006, Christopher Meloni was given the Human Rights Campaign's Equality Award, along with actor Jake Gyllenhaal and director Ang Lee, for his work on behalf of LGBT issues.
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Christopher Meloni married Doris Sherman Christopher Meloni, a production designer, on July 1,1995.
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Christopher Meloni has a Cubist-inspired representation of the crucifixion of Christ tattooed on his upper left arm, a butterfly tattoo on his left upper thigh, and a Chinese astrological chart of his family on his right lower leg.
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In 2007, Christopher Meloni was inducted into his high school's athletic Hall of Fame as a member of the undefeated 1978 football team, for which he was quarterback.
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In 2014, Christopher Meloni bought the house used in the television show The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
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In 2021, on an episode of PBS' Finding Your Roots, it was revealed that Christopher Meloni is a distant relative of Nancy Pelosi.